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Drink spiking is largely a myth and far more likely to be an excuse young women use after they become heavily intoxicated, according to WA research.

A Perth study of suspected drink spiking victims found claims of being given sedatives or illicit drugs without consent are exaggerated and that alcohol is often the real culprit.

The results, published in the journal of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, are based on 100 patients who attended Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Joondalup Health Campus over 19 months with suspected drink spiking from the previous 12 hours.

Almost nine out of 10 cases were women and almost 60 per cent of those were under the age of 25.

QEII Medical Centre clinical toxicologist Mark Little said the findings did not support the public perception of sedatives being placed by men into the drinks of women for the purpose of sexual assault or robbing them.

“Drink spiking with sedative or illicit drugs appears to be rare and if it does occur alcohol appears to be the most common agent used,” he said.

Dr Little said what was more concerning was the big number of people in the study who had taken illicit drugs such as cannabis or amphetamines or consumed excessive amounts of alcohol, which made it difficult to establish if a person had truly been given a spiked drink.

On average, people in the study had a blood alcohol concentration of .096 and reported having consumed between 3.8 and 11.6 standard drinks. The researchers said they did not identify a single case where a sedative drug was likely to have been placed illegally in a drink in a pub or nightclub.

The study also showed that many people remained in denial, with more than a third still believing they had been victims of drink spiking, irrespective of test results which disproved this.

Only five out of the 100 patients had blood alcohol levels which did not match with how much they reported drinking, raising the possibility that alcohol had been added to their drinks.

In an editorial in the journal, Associate Professor David Wells, from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, and Dr Maureen Phillips, from Perth’s Sexual Assault Resource Centre, said the findings highlighted concerns that many young people were drinking themselves into a semiconscious state that put their personal safety at risk.

A girl i dated back in college had one of her friends die from excessive alcohol. the girl was sleeping on her back, threw up, and "drowned". my ex-gf always insisted that her friend was drugged even though tests came back stating that there wasn't anything else in her system other than excessive alcohol and weed. If i ever brought it up, she would usually say something like "no. she was definitely drugged", but couldn't give me a legitimate reason why she thought that.

A girl i dated back in college had one of her friends die from excessive alcohol. the girl was sleeping on her back, threw up, and "drowned". my ex-gf always insisted that her friend was drugged even though tests came back stating that there wasn't anything else in her system other than excessive alcohol and weed. If i ever brought it up, she would usually say something like "no. she was definitely drugged", but couldn't give me a legitimate reason why she thought that.

A girl i dated back in college had one of her friends die from excessive alcohol. the girl was sleeping on her back, threw up, and "drowned". my ex-gf always insisted that her friend was drugged even though tests came back stating that there wasn't anything else in her system other than excessive alcohol and weed. If i ever brought it up, she would usually say something like "no. she was definitely drugged", but couldn't give me a legitimate reason why she thought that.